Irish Writers Dictionary update

Murray, Tommy

Tommy Murray is a writer based in Trim, County Meath, and has published books on Local History, including Trim, looking back (Trim, Tommy Murray, 2004); as well as short stories and poetry. His main poetry collections are Counting Stained Glass Windows (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 2009); and Swimming With Dolphins (Lapwing Press, 2012). To date he [...]

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Tommy Murray is a writer based in Trim, County Meath, and has published books on Local History, including Trim, looking back (Trim, Tommy Murray, 2004); as well as short stories and poetry. His main poetry collections are Counting Stained Glass Windows (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 2009); and Swimming With Dolphins (Lapwing Press, 2012).
To date he has won 40 awards for literature, including the Nora Fahy Prize.
He lives in Trim.

Swimming With Dolphins

Swimming With Dolphins  will not be available in local outlets just Like my last collection Counting Stained glass Windows which was available locally for a brief spell.  There are two reasons for this firstly it is not my job to leave books in shops.  If local shops want to stock this book they can order it  from Lapwing, Gill and Macmillan , Argosy  or any of the other suppliers.  Secondly as I am selling it at 10 euro local shops would be charging Sterling and they would be unfair to them.
Nice to see that one of the first messages of congratulation would come from Limerick Poets and writers

Funding

Delighted to learn today that The Meath Junior Writers Group are to receive funding under the VEC Awards scheme.   This will almost certainly mean another publication later in  the year for the dozens of young people from the Navan area who have been busy writing poems and short stories.  The awards will be made at a ceremony in  Solstice Arts Centre, Navan on Wednesday March 28th at 7.30pm.  In other news it has been revealed that a local based group (Trim) may take over the publication of my collection of Ghost Stories
and below a nice little touch from Crannog

To Tommy From Crannóg Magazine Stay in touch with Crannóg @ www.crannogmagazine.com

Swimming With Dolphins For New York

'Swimming With Dolphins ' a new collection of 44 poems by Trim Poet Tommy Murray and published by Lapwing Belfast is now available from this website at the reduced price of ten euro.  The collection is in Perfect Binding.  Not having to worry about which shops it has to go in to  or the prospect of getting shop soiled copies returned  after three months is  some of the advantages of having a publisher as opposed to a printer.  Having said that I will be delivering a few copies around the town in the next few days.  Trim Councillor Trevor Golden  will be presenting copies  to the Meath Association in New York  and other societies to mark St. Patrick's Day in the coming weekend.

Tuesday 14th

Pending a decision on whether to launch the collection the first copies of 'Swimming with Dolphins' will arrive in Trim on Tuesday 14th March and will immediately dispatched  to those who ordered copies.  These copies will be going to Boston, London and Manchester and further afield to people who have bought most of my books over the years

Latest Publications from Lapwing

The latest publications from Lapwing


9781907276880 Paul Tobin                    Blessed by Magpies 76 £10.00
9781907276897 Laurence James            Deliquesence of Dust 64 £10.00
9781907276903 Marc Carver                    London Poems 52 £10.00
9781907276910 Iain Britton                    druidic approaches 80 £10.00
9781907276927 Gillian Somerville-Large    Karamania 48 £10.00
9781907276934 Martha Rowsell            Another Journey Like This 52 £10.00
9781907276941 Kate Ashton                   The Concourse of Virgins 20 £10.00
9781907276958 Martin Domleo                   Sheila 40 £10.00
9781907276965 Tommy Murray                   Swimming with Dolphins 52 £10.00

Highlanes Gallery Readings

EXPERIMENTS IN MOOD AND MEANING

Poetry, live at Highlanes Gallery Spring 2012

A first series of Saturday afternoon poetry events exploring new styles and new ways of presentation and communication, bringing to Drogheda developments that are revolutionising the cultural scene in Dublin and showcasing upcoming local and national poets.  The series is curated and introduced by poet Roger Hudson, the programmed is financially supported by Create Louth and Highlanes Gallery. Admission Free

A tribute to Lapwing Publications, the fiercely independent poetry publisher run by Dennis and Rene Greig in Belfast, which continues to discover and present the work of poet. With experimental Dublin poet Adam Rudden, award-winning poet Tommy Murray from Trim, winner of last year’s Great Drogheda Poetry Slam, and the skilled and subtle poems of Drogheda’s Marie MacSweeney.